Comments on: Dr. Narbon: May 14-19, 2001

By: linkhyrule5

linkhyrule5 — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 08:33:05 +0000

….Given that 6-year-old Dave has clear glasses, I’m going to vote for candidate “Dave built a time machine and went to the future to get himself a Yak-Face figure a year before they were publicly released.”

What? Calvin did it all the time. :v

By: 25

25 — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 17:54:31 +0000

In reply to David Harmon (mental_mouse). (SPOILERS) No, V-Helen did finally get to the moon in Chapter 26 (titled: "At Last, The Moon.").

By: Daniel Dwiggins (dand)

Daniel Dwiggins (dand) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:56:58 +0000

With regards to Dr. Narbon’s lack of current mad science, this actually seems to be perfectly in line with normal scienctist/research behavior. It is not unusual for scienctists to do most of there best work when they are young.One could also make the suggestion that many of them become much better at manipulating people as they mature in the academic environment (people being colleauges and/or grad students). This is what has happened to Dr. Narbon.

By: John Wells (johnwwells)

John Wells (johnwwells) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:56:57 +0000

Leon: He wants to convince this Dave that he has a horrible future in store for him if he doesn't refill the swimming pool. Therefore, he predicts everything Dave is going to say; he's a mad genius, after all. If Artie can predict Dave, why can't Dave predict his young, oblivious self?

Question: Would Mad, Bitter Dave be altruistic enough to pull this off just to give another version of himself a chance for happiness?

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:56:56 +0000

Mr. Wells: if “the Dave who visited this universe saw a happy future“, then how was he able to grow up into Future Dave and know in advance what ‘our’ Dave was going to say when they met? Mmm-hmm.

By: John Wells (johnwwells)

John Wells (johnwwells) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:56:55 +0000

(I’m not going to draw all of it out; it would be horrible. Lots and lots of blue and red colored lines, crossing over each other repeatedly.)

By: John Wells (johnwwells)

John Wells (johnwwells) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:56:54 +0000

I worked out a possible timeline about a year ago. Here it is.

The continuity can be worked out with a single timeline, with one explosion-and-restart of the universe by Mell. Assume that when Dave 1 is unstuck in time, he can end up in Dave 2's body, and vice-versa. Both Daves get unstuck in time, and they swap places at the end of the storyline.

1. In the second universe, Mell (who is with Caliban at the time) remembers to tell Dave about synchronicity. The Dave who visited this universe saw a happy future; poor, poor Dave! In the destroyed universe, Mell intentionally 'forgets,' in an attempt to strand Dave in his past. In either case, Dave mistakenly thinks that passing the information to himself will cause a paradox.

2. Either a causality loop happens, or, in the first universe, Dave gives Yak-Face to Dr. Narbon for some reason unrelated to previous knowledge - perhaps as a bribe to free Bill.

3. One Dave started smoking because of time-travel; non-smoking Dave visited smoking Dave's past and lit up for the first time. The other Dave's story we all know.

So, in conclusion: There is nothing you can do to change the past; you can only blow up the universe and start over. And if you travel in time and see a happy future for yourself, you will ruin it.

This definitely makes a more depressing strip, doesn't it?

By: Andrew Barton (andrewandkatebarton)

Andrew Barton (andrewandkatebarton) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:56:53 +0000

I have now spent most of the day also reading Questionable Content from episode one. I joined the forum and told them Shaenon sent me. I wonder if we’ll start getting recruits arriving in the other direction?

By: Edwin Quantrall (reynard)

Edwin Quantrall (reynard) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:56:52 +0000

AARGH!!! TOO MUCH SATURDAY MORNING TV AND POP-CULTURE!!! IT BURNS!!! IT BURNS!!!

By: Justin Grubbs (the_purple_knight)

Justin Grubbs (the_purple_knight) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:56:51 +0000

Be that as it may, I believe that Dave was a childhood genius at the time. In fact, it is my belief that this strip is actually the way it happened. I would not put it beyond Dave to genetically engineer a bizarro, a Derek Wildstar, heck even a male Ellen Ripley. It could happen. I know it.